Does recycling actually conserve or preserve things?
By Samantha MacBride There are a series of assumptions behind the familiar assertion that recycling saves resources and energy, and in so doing, protects the environment. These assumptions…
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Book Review: The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
In The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, Mehrsa Baradaran studies the crucial role that financial structures have played in creating and maintaining racial inequalities in the…
Book Review: The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to be Privileged by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison
In The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged, Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison offer a unique and encapsulating analysis of class inequality at the top end…
When your research is attacked
Attacks on research have become routinized and institutionalized. Here is our step-by-step guide on what to do if you and your research are attacked.
Book Review: Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain by Mohan Ambikaipaker
In Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain, Mohan Ambikaipaker offers a new ethnographic study using an ‘activist anthropology’ approach that draws on his longstanding association with …
Book Review: Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
In Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, Arlie Russell Hochschild explores the ‘deep story’ behind the rise of the Tea Party and Donald Trump…
Author Interview: Mary Evans, Sarah Moore and Hazel Johnstone on Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction
In their new book, Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction, Mary Evans, Sarah Moore and Hazel Johnstone show how twenty-first-century detective fiction offers insight…
Book Review: Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography by Laura Vaughan
In Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography – available to download here for free – Laura Vaughan offers an analysis of how maps have both described and shaped social…
LSE RB Year in Review: The Top 12 Book Reviews of 2018 (Part Two)
Image Credit: (Pixabay CC0) What were you reading in 2018 on LSE Review of Books? Following Part One, which counted down from 12-7, in Part Two we reveal the 6…
LSE RB Year in Review: The Top 12 Book Reviews of 2018 (Part One)
Image Credit: (Pixabay CC0) What were you reading in 2018 on LSE Review of Books? In Part One of our review of the year, we count down the 12…
The Dirt
#Discardstudies takes waste and wasting as its topic of study. To keep practitioners up-to-date, we publish The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls…
Hope and mourning in the Anthropocene
These experiences resonate strongly with the concept of “solastagia,” described both as a form of homesickness while still in place, and as a type of grief over the…
Materiality of Research: The General Theory of Failure: Thoughts on the Material Culture of Failure by Timothy Carroll, David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai and Aaron Parkhurst
In this feature essay, Timothy Carroll, David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai and Aaron Parkhurst introduce recent edited collection, The Material Culture of Failure: When Things Do Wrong (Bloomsbury, 2017),…
Science with heart
Conservation biologist Alex Bond on dealing with pollution, harm, and suffering as a scientist.
Book Review: Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism edited by Hermione Spriggs
In Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism, editor Hermione Spriggs brings together visual and verbal documentation of five art-anthropology exchange processes alongside furth…
Book Review: Stepping into the Elite: Trajectories of Social Achievement in India, France and the United States by Jules Naudet
In Stepping into the Elite: Trajectories of Social Achievement in India, France and the United States, Jules Naudet draws on interviews with individuals in these three nations to…
Book Review: My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery
In My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File, Katherine Verdery offers insight into the history of communism in Romania by exploring the surveillance file created on…
The Dirt
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt…
RfM sucht wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter*in
Rat für Migration sucht wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter*in für Geschäftsstelle ab 01.02.2019 Der Rat für Migration (RfM) ist ein bundesweiter Zusammenschluss von rund 150 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wiss…
Reading List: 15 Recommended Reads on Colonial Histories, Colonial Legacies
Image Credit: African and Caribbean War Memorial, Windrush Square, Brixton, London (Kelly Foster CC BY SA 4.0) In this reading list, we recommend fifteen books previously reviewed on the…
Nuclear State, Nuclear Waste
Nuclear State, Nuclear Waste: Emily Simmonds on Canada as a nuclear nation & ongoing colonialism through uranium mining.
Book Review: Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia by Tomas Matza
In Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia, Thomas Matza offers an ethnographic account that explores the rise of psychotherapy in post-socialist Russia. Through in…
Waste colonialism
Waste colonialism refers to how waste and pollution are part of the domination of one group in their homeland by another group. The concept has been gaining traction…
Book Review: The Sage Handbook of the 21st Century City edited by Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett
In The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City, Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett bring together contributors to explore the conditions that have emerged or intensified since the…